VCS 6.1 – How to view or delete VCS alerts using haalert?

by Ramdev · Published February 15, 2014 · Updated February 15, 2014

The haalert command line utility enables users to view and delete VCS alerts.

Example output of -display:

# haalert -display

Alert ID Gurkul-C10-app_grp

Time Tue 14 Oct 2003 06:04:33 PM PDT

Cluster C10

Group app_grp

ALERT[Gurkul-C10-app_grp] Global group app_grp is unable to fail over within cluster C10 and ClusterFailOverPolicy is setto Manual. Administrative action is required.

Example output of -list:

# haalert -list

Oct 2013 06:04:33 PM PDT Gurkul-C10-app_grp

Example output of -delete:

# haalert -delete Gurkul-C10-app_grp -notes “Administrative action taken”

# tail /var/VRTSvcs/log/engine_A.log

2013/10/14 18:04:33 VCS ERROR V-16-5-51074 ALERT[Gurkul-C10-app_grp]

Global group app_grp is unable to fail over within cluster C10 and ClusterFailOverPolicy is set to Manual. Administrative action is required.

2013/10/14 18:05:53 VCS NOTICE V-16-5-51026 ALERT[Gurkul-C10-app_grp] was deleted by user root on local cluster. Refer to the next log message for the reason

2014/01/14 18:05:53 VCS NOTICE V-16-5-51022 User’s Reason: Administrative action taken